Iranian Women Revolt
THE ART OF LIVING IN DANGER
Wednesday, June 14th at 7:30 PM
Members $10 | Public $15
In filmmaker Mina
Keshavarz’s award winning documentary, she follows a group of women
fighting for change, and by doing so unveils the deep family secret of her
grandmother’s death. Mina tells the story of her grandmother, a victim of
domestic violence, through the context of a woman’s place in Iranian law,
before and after the Islamic revolution. Exploring the story of a group of
feminists in Iran, in 2016, who created a campaign called “Stop Domestic
Violence Against Women”, where such campaigns are forbidden by law. (Iran, 2020, 87min., In Persian with English
subtitles | Dir. Mina Keshavarz)
